Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…
Which one got the stripes three times a day, the old witch?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: get · To what, where: stripes
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stripes | det |
| 5 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 witch | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 witch | amod |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | which one | the stripes | time | the old witch obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stripe=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
no, the young one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
no, the young lady who was kind to him at the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 lady | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | cop |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kind | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young lady | him = he | the castle | kind property | tree rules |
Option 3
yeah, the old one, the witch with the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 witch | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | appos |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 witch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, the old one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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